bullshit
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I teach a class on bullshit — an act, often with full confidence, intended to persuade, with no allegiance to truth.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
A thought like, "Joan Didion was a master prose stylist and brilliant thinker who said some real bullshit about feminism" cannot stand.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2022
Inscryption cuts out most of the bullshit that comes with traditional deckbuilding games and allows me to get to the good stuff: building a deck so overpowered that I feel like a god.
From The Verge ● Nov. 2, 2021
But at least Maisel was bullshit in a lively, debatable way—EiP is just bad yogurt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
People go out of their way to tell me they think Khalil’s death is bullshit, but that Remy’s reason for protesting is bullshit too.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
As indicated above, ordinary lying involves intentional false claims about the world, while bullshitting involves intentionally false claims and representations about the bullshitter themselves.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2019
You always see these guys standing around bullshitting, there’s nobody coming in.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2017
When Stephanopoulos reminded Trump that “they’re already there,” the candidate forged ahead like a school kid bullshitting his way through an oral exam that he had not bothered to prepare for.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2016
Then again, there’s not a one-to-one correlation between facts and truth when it comes to martini lore in particular or, more generally, that literary genre known as bullshitting in bars.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2013
Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.
From Time Magazine Archive
